The Cognitive Profile Inventory is designed to help you to identify your personal style of thinking, learning, and making decisions.

Although an individual's profile is subject to some change over time due to lifestyle, education, and other significant influences, the general shape of the profile probably won't change a great deal. But before too many details are discussed, the first step is to do the inventory for yourself. Once you have your own profile in front of you, the description of what it means will be much more meaningful.

The inventory consists of 60 pairs of words. You are to look at each pair, and choose which appeals to you more, or describes you better. As you are doing the inventory, keep in mind how you prefer to deal with life, learning, and people.

It is important that your answers reflect how you really prefer to do things, not what you think you should do, or what someone tells you that you should do, or how someone else does things, no matter how much you admire them. No answer is better than any other answer. The best answer is the one that is right for you. This is your inventory, and it will be your profile. The more thoughtful and honest you are in self-evaluation, the more helpful the resulting profile will be for you.

For each pair of words, choose one, and then select one of the values between <one> and <<<<four>>>>. If you have a strong preference, you would assign it a higher value. You might think in terms of the following guidelines for values:

		I generally prefer this some of the time, probably a little more often than the other choice.
		I definitely prefer this over the other choice most of the time.
		I strongly prefer this one, would very rarely choose the other
		Absolutely! Would probably never (or almost never) choose the other if this choice were available.

For example, in flavors of ice cream:

Vanilla					Chocolate

I personally would choose chocolate and give it 4 points, since I would almost always choose chocolate if my choice were between vanilla and chocolate.

If I liked vanilla a bit more than chocolate, my choice might look like this:

Vanilla					Chocolate

After you've completed all the pairs, a graph like the one below will illustrate the inventory score. Please refer to the book to evaluate the results of your inventory.